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Automobile Industry - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
Motor Co. United Fruit Co. Smaller Collections Yousuf Karsh Portraits Margaret Bourke-White Farm Security Administration 1934 Art and Industry Exhibition Early Aviation Electric Railway Jones & Laughlin...
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- 15 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 1/5
Black students in our community have spent the last few weeks grappling with the weight of a devastating truth: that our country and society has undeniably and systemically...
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- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting
1929 crash—an event he failed to predict. But, more generally, while individual forecasters came and went, some making it rich and others not, the bigger story is that the industry created key resources for...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything
other pioneers have gleefully declared the death of the state. What their stories show us, though, is that while technology can gravely wound governments, it rarely kills them. Instead, governments survive because, ironically, both View Details
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by Debora L. Spar
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
Americas, Oceania, Asia, and Africa investigates how groups' overall warmth-competence, status-competence, and competition-warmth correlations vary across societies, and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- June 2011
- Article
Truth in Giving: Experimental Evidence on the Welfare Effects of Informed Giving to the Poor
By: Christina Fong and Felix Oberholzer-Gee
It is often difficult for donors to predict the value of charitable giving because they know little about the persons who receive their help. This concern is particularly acute when making contributions to organizations that serve heterogeneous populations. While we...
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Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Policy;
Information;
Knowledge Acquisition;
Game Theory;
Prejudice and Bias;
Poverty;
Welfare
Fong, Christina, and Felix Oberholzer-Gee. "Truth in Giving: Experimental Evidence on the Welfare Effects of Informed Giving to the Poor." Special Issue on Charitable Giving and Fundraising Journal of Public Economics 95, nos. 5-6 (June 2011): 436–444.
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Contemporary Black Artists at Harvard Business School | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Skip to Main Content Contemporary Black Artists at Harvard Business School Search Baker Library Search Search Search Overview Contemporary Black Artists at Harvard Business School Opened February 2021 Online Exhibition This online exhibition highlights works of View Details
- December 2023
- Case
Robert McNamara: Changing the World
By: Robert Simons and Shirley Sun
This case traces the life of Robert McNamara from Harvard Business School to Ford Motor Company to the U.S. Department of Defense. McNamara excelled in every job along the way: becoming the youngest-ever professor at Harvard Business School, the first non-family...
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Performance Measurement;
Military;
Leadership Development;
Values and Beliefs;
Personal Characteristics;
Leadership Style;
Success;
Business and Government Relations;
Power and Influence;
Business Education;
War
Simons, Robert, and Shirley Sun. "Robert McNamara: Changing the World." Harvard Business School Case 124-036, December 2023.
- July 2012
- Case
Generation Investment Management
By: Sandra J. Sucher and Matthew Preble
Examines the investment process of Generation Investment Management, a "sustainable" investing firm established in 2004 by David Blood and U.S. Vice President Al Gore. Places students in the position of David Lowish, director of global industrials, who must decide...
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Developing Countries and Economies;
Energy Generation;
Investment;
Environmental Sustainability;
Pollutants;
Welfare;
Financial Services Industry;
India;
United Kingdom
Sucher, Sandra J., and Matthew Preble. "Generation Investment Management." Harvard Business School Case 613-002, July 2012.
- December 2006 (Revised November 2008)
- Case
The New York Jets--A West Side Story
In 2005, Jay Cross, New York Jets president, must decide how to proceed with finding a new home for the football team he heads after New York's Public Authorities Control Board rejects a $1.4 billion plan to build the New York Sports and Convention Center (NYSCC) on...
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Buildings and Facilities;
Investment;
Negotiation Deal;
Negotiation Process;
Partners and Partnerships;
Urban Development;
Sports;
Real Estate Industry;
Sports Industry
Kohn, A. Eugene, and Boyd Edward Bishop. "The New York Jets--A West Side Story." Harvard Business School Case 207-027, December 2006. (Revised November 2008.)
- 22 Jan 2018
- Blog Post
HBS Peek: Finding a Sense of Purpose
contagious entrepreneurial spirit and a purpose to create. This insatiable appetite to turn a vision into reality is precisely what fuels innovation and steers society in...
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- 26 Apr 2011
- News
Do You See What I See?
management practice Sandra Sucher, who teaches a section of the course. “It’s all about engaging the ‘other,’ and leaders can be notoriously poor at separating out their own perception from the way that other people might see things.”...
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- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
develop the capacity to examine and evaluate individual CSR-oriented actions, a process that requires both an understanding of the motivation behind them and an assessment of their impact on View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
States, Markets, and Civil Society Shape Adherence to Global Labor Standards By: Toffel, Michael W., Jodi L. Short, and Melissa Ouellet Abstract—Corporate codes of conduct are...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
Case 707-431 Minoru Mori is the CEO of Mori Building, which has built Roppongi Hills, an ambitious large-scale, mixed-use development in Tokyo, Japan that includes high-end retail, restaurants, hotel, office, library, and View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 11 Aug 2016
- Cold Call Podcast
Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night
scientists and with labs and who have a close working relationship with their faculty. Brian: Does that show up in the rankings? Does that somehow make itself apparent? Bill: No, because usually Williams,...
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- 20 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 20, 2007
costs; create options; protect and enhance the realizable value of knowledge assets and certain other resources; and convert regulatory constraints into opportunities....
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Aug 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning From Japan’s Remarkable Disaster Recovery
style has changed as well. "When we interviewed many Japanese CEOs, it was interesting to see how Japanese society doesn't reward people who stick out—worse, they criticize and hammer down the nail that...
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- 31 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 31
Abstract Theories of the firm have been dominated by a legacy of ideas from early industrialization that pose zero-sum opposition between capital and labor (or capital and nearly everything else),...
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Sean Silverthorne
- May 2022 (Revised May 2024)
- Case
The Freedom Fund (A): Ending Modern Slavery
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Courtney Han
The Freedom Fund founded in 2013 to end modern slavery had raised more than half its intended target (by 2025) of $200 million. In 2021, impressed by its decentralized-partnering style of operations, philanthropist MacKenzie Scott awarded the Fund a gift of $35 million...
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Social Issues;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Spending;
Decisions;
India;
Thailand;
Ethiopia
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Courtney Han. "The Freedom Fund (A): Ending Modern Slavery." Harvard Business School Case 522-099, May 2022. (Revised May 2024.)